Notes on the Great Realignment

amgreatness.com ^ | 5/18/2019 | Roger Kimball

[bitt]

One of these days, I would like to cadge an invitation to a strategy meeting of #TheResistance. Not the pussy-behatted feminoid Hollywood chapter of #TheResistance. Nothing could be more boring, or more depressing, than that.

But I would like to get a glimpse into the engine room of the more-moral-than-thou rancid-Right confraternity. How are their troops dispatched? Whence do they receive their marching orders? Is it via the internet, or from some even more deliquescent medium of communication, that Pete Wehner and Parson David French and the rest of that fraternity receive the codebook of this week’s virtue signaling? I sometimes imagine Bill Kristol reposed among the debris of his machinations, like Marlon Brando in “Apocalypse Now,” muttering terrible imprecations to his mesmerized if batty acolytes.

I’ll probably never know, but it’s clear that they do employ some effective means of getting the message out. I was reminded of this over the last couple of days when I noticed that Anne Applebaum, Max Boot, and Gabriel Schoenfeld all showed up with essentially the same homework assignment.

Applebaum, writing for the Orange-Man-Bad Post, weighed in with a column taking the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to task for “overt racism and covert anti-Semitism,” for mounting “an all-out assault on his country’s legal and judicial institutions, on independent media, on academia and on culture,” and for supporting Christianity against “the Muslim hordes (who don’t exist).”

[bitt]

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[robowombat]

An unknown number of Never Trumpers are people who are morally compromised and the evidence is in a safe in some K Street law firm. Max Boot is a prime candidate for this.

[Truthoverpower]

This guy just doesn’t get it

We conservatives just listen and those who say things that line up with your ideas we like

Rush has been saying this for years -he doesn’t create mind numbed robots

At Our great and wonderful Donald J Trump’s rally’s You will see everybody from every walk of life every race every gender every everything

They all show up on their own free well on their own accord nobody’s charged anything

this is the essence of conservatism

I remember Wayback in the day when Rush had his Dans bake sale stuff and tens of thousands of people would show up out of the woods

It’s the true nature of grass roots - conservatism

Liberals have to create this out of whole cloth using hysteria

[marron]

Excellent article, worth the time to read.

[Billthedrill]

Great find, and thanks for posting. I heartily recommend one book cited in it, The Demon In Democracy. I'm reading it now.

It is not, of course, only democracies that display the characteristic Tocqueville pointed out, that of demanding that the citizen be molded to fit the system instead of the other way around. That is the central premise for every social reformer from today's feminist or eco-nazi to the New Soviet Man of the previous century. It is a project not only demonstrably historically futile but guaranteed to produce despotism on the part of the molder and misery on the part of the molded.

[Vendome]

This guy is a horrible writer, trying to be smarter with every sentence

I don’t want to think about your prose, I may be interested in your thoughts